. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. EAST WAREHAM RESEARCHER PROBES SECRETS OF AGING By Muriel Bousseau Courtesy Standard-Times New Bedford, Mass. What kind of changes take place in animal organs during aging? The answer to the probing question is being studied at the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- mental Station, East Wareham, by three ambitious scientists working on a special nematode project. One of the three is a talent from another country, Poland-born Marian J. Kisial, who is research associate on the project. The scientist first came to the Unite
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. EAST WAREHAM RESEARCHER PROBES SECRETS OF AGING By Muriel Bousseau Courtesy Standard-Times New Bedford, Mass. What kind of changes take place in animal organs during aging? The answer to the probing question is being studied at the University of Massachusetts Cranberry Experi- mental Station, East Wareham, by three ambitious scientists working on a special nematode project. One of the three is a talent from another country, Poland-born Marian J. Kisial, who is research associate on the project. The scientist first came to the United States in 1969 on an ex- change program. He later returned for a study stay and has been involved ever since in challenging research on aging. "It's very exciting work," he commented. "It would be a remarkable thing if we could discover how to stop ; In Poland, Kisiel was a nema- tologist working on the ecology of nematology. Although his work here has to do with similar kinds of projects he said that it is altogether different in scope. Used in the study are nematodes, minute wormlike creatures found in the soil. "They have proved to be excel- lent models because they have well organized body systems and their life spans of five or six days gives us an opportunity to study many generations of the creatures," Kisiel said. An important part of the sci- entist's work includes electron mi- croscopy, a method used to look inside of single cells. The interesting study also includes plan discussions, observation checks and culture studies. So far it has been determined that at higher temperatures nema- todes have been short lived and have a shorter generation time. Some aged more rapidly at 27 degrees than at 17 degrees or at 22 degrees. Also discovered has been the fact that nematodes move more slowly as they DR. M. J. KISIEL Although the studies are im- portant and may reveal a better understanding of higher animals, Kisiel feels that sci
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